Scratch Building wizards needed!!!!!

HORUS,
If you don't want to make them yourself, both Grandt Line (model railroad types) and Modelkasten make excellent bolt/nut and rivets. The Grandt Lines come on individual styren "stalks" and are very easy to remove with a single-edge razor blade. The Modelkasten come on a styrene "block" and (if I remember correctly--I need to look in my hobby box) you have to shave them off the small cast block. Either way you won't go wrong. Both companies provide them in a variety of sizes.
Gip Winecoff

I know you can get replacement parts for free from www.testors.com if it is an Italeri kit.

Rob,
alas it is a Tamiya, so i may be SOL

a couple pins and a paper hole-punch would probably do the trick. look at the instructions and fasion the pieces to be similar. put a few drops of epoxy for your bolt heads.

A cheap way to make bolt heads is to fashion them from hexagonal rod. Plastruct makes various sizes of hex rod. Simply place the rod on a piece of double-stick attached to a block of wood and cut off thin pieces of about .02". In 1/35th scale, .02 of an inch equals .7 of an inch in full size, or roughly 3/4 of an inch, about the diameter of an average bolt on an AFV. For larger bolts, a .04" rod would make bolt heads of an 1-1/2 inch diameter, a fairly large bolt. A package of 10, .02 diameter Plastruct rods cost me $1.75, enough to make a few thousand bolts or nuts!

Have you thought about getting a hold of Tamiya america for the parts.
In the past I have had to call them for replacement parts.
They will charge you about ten bucks for a couple of parts trees and shipping.
you will need a credit card,the kit number,and the number on the trees that the parts you need are on.
If all go's well you will have your parts in a couple weeks.
That might be better than scratch building them which may cost you more time and as much at the hobby shop.
Plus you will have all those cool extra parts for your kit left over on the trees.

Good luck.....

i have some extras that i am not going to be using on my early version tiger 1. i would be happy to mail them to you. Let me know what part numbers you need and ill send you an email.

Edog thanks sooo much...part numbers are as follows: ON B TREE: B27 x2
ON A TREE: A48 x2 and A49 x4

Thanks again,
email is :
sylvaine28@comcast.net

thanks man
~H~

Horus,
I've written a few articles that you can read at the following address http://mbie.proboards13.com/index.cgi?board=construction. Are a few short "for dummies" like guides to "do it yourself" in scale modeling. I hope you can find some ideas there...
Ciao